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♪ hello and welcome to our viewers joining from all around the world. i'm michael holmes and coming up on "cnn newsroom," renewed protests against police brutality across america following death of yet another black man at hands of law enforcement. in the philippines, a prominent journalist critical of the president is found guilty of liable. dozens of new coronavirus cases put one beijing district
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on a wartime footing. ♪ warm welcome everyone. thanks for your company. right now we're witnessing the 20th straight night of protests against racial injustice in the united states. killing of rayshard brooks at a fast food restaurant here in atlanta reignited the explosion of anger that began over the death of george floyd in minneapolis. these are some of the major cities holding rallies against police brutality. brooks was shot twice in the back according to fulton county district attorney. first thing the officer said after shooting brooks was quote, i got him. he's since been fired. the district attorney telling cnn's federico whitfield he's weighing murder charges.
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>> i can tell you definitely that probably sometime around wednesday we'll be making a decision in this case. i believe in this instance what we have to choose between, if there's a choice to be made, is between murder and felony murder. >> we're getting a clearer look at moments leading up to the shooting. deadly encounter captured on police body cam and other video. cnn's sanchez with more from the scene. >> reporter: large crowds have come and gone from wendy's where rayshard brooks was shot and killed friday night. many protesting, others setting up a makeshift memorial. what is captured on camera of the incident paints a complex picture. brooks at different points joking with police officers, engaging in polite conversation, but in one fell swoop, everything changes.
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we should warn you, some of this video is graphic and difficult to watch. responding to call from wendy's in south atlanta friday night, officer approaches rayshard brooks' car. >> what's up my man. hey, my man. hey man, you're parked in the middle of the drive-through line here. hey. >> copy 41. >> sir, what's up man. you're parked in the drive-through right now. hey, sir, you all right? >> asleep in the drive-through lane, police body cam footage shows the 27-year-old does not respond right away. >> you tired? all right, man, i'll move my car, pull somewhere and take a nap.
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>> all right. all right. you good? >> yeah. >> all right. >> brooks eventually wakes up and agrees to move his car before he appears to fall asleep again. >> my man, go back to sleep, you got to move your car. >> brooks moves to a nearby parking spot where brosnan asks -- >> how much have you had to drink? how much is not much? one drink, how much? drugs today? >> i don't do drugs. >> brooks struggles to find his license and tries to step out of the car. >> i'm going to get out. >> no, just stay in the car for me. get your license. >> brosnan radios for another officer to conduct dui test. >> he's pretty out of it. good amount of liquor in him right now. >> when officer arrives, brooks denies having been asleep.
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>> reason we're here, somebody called 911 because you were asleep behind the wheel in the drive-through, right? do you recall that? >> i don't. i don't. >> you don't recall just minutes ago you were passed out behind the wheel? >> nuh-uh. >> agrees to a breathalyzer test. can't remember how much he had to drink. then he tells police. >> i know you're doing your job. >> tries to handcuff brooks, he resists. witness video shows brosnan readying his taser. brooks grabs it out of his hand. breaking free, brooks punches rolf who fires his stun gun as brooks takes off. here's the moment the altercation becomes deadly. we slowed this down for you. you can see chasing brooks, each man carrying a taser. moves taser from right hand to
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left and reaches to hand gun. that's when brooks turns and fires the taser, and rolf shoots, firing three times at brooks as he flees. bystanders almost immediately begin cursing and shouting at officers. >> both of your careers are done because you just shot a man for no reason. >> a few minutes later, officers begin to provide medical treatment. >> mr. brooks, keep breathing. >> short time later, rushed to nearby hospital, later pronounced dead. officer rolf has been terminated, officer bresnan has been placed on administrative duchlt and erika shields, the chief of police resigned over the weekend. there is ongoing investigation, potentially with charges coming this week. boris sanchez, cnn, atlanta.
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>> our next guest is former president of the police foundation, former police chief joins me from redlands in california. when you look at videos, i'm curious your take. does seem to show there were choices made. what's your evaluation of the officer's decision to draw his weapon and fire at the moment the suspect's back is turned and he's fleeing? >> so i think this video shows how quickly what is starting out as very casual and very cordial interaction between mr. brooks and the officers can just go right off the rails. officers are talking to him. eventually decide to place him under arrest. one of the things that was surprising they did not tell him he was under arrest. grabbed him. told him to put his hands behind his back. sounds like he had been
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drinking, that may have startled him and fight is off, and he took off. decision to use the weapons is really going to be framed around whether it was necessary and reasonable and whether the force used was proportional and they might decide that's probably not true. >> you would imagine you have to be fearing for your life and didn't seem his life was under threat. tragedy that george floyd died after passing phony $25 bill and brooks died falling asleep in car in wendy's. >> i haven't seen enough of this, but apparently the autopsy indicated he was shot in the back. again whether this was necessary, reasonable and proportional. if mr. brooks is running away from the officers, not presenting immediate threat to their life, i think the officer -- it's incumbent on the
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the officers in their defense if criminal charges are filed to prove they thought they had a reasonable fear for their life. and you know, when you look at that, you have to ask yourself a couple of questions. obviously some of the things that mr. brooks did were not right, stole the gun from the officers, probably a felony. but they knew where he was, where to find him. if they have to, can let him go, get him later on. all of these factors are going to come into play. they'll have their side of the story and will tender a defense. >> it's coming back to was officers' lives threatened, hard to argue that when suspect is running away. this is all to the question of reform, what reform would help in that situation? what sort of training,
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de-escalation and treatment of the suspect? >> if you go back to the very beginning of the incident, looks like they're probably arresting him for drunk driving. first of all, got to tell him. that's de-escalation, what i'm about to do. when you put your hands on somebody don't tell them why, especially if they've been drinking, they're going to panic sometimes. that's part of the problem. other problem s i think in this discussion of how we resolve lower grade criminal offenses, some people say why couldn't they have given him a ride home? he was not causing problems, cooperating, very polite and even suggested a few blocks to home. other people, especially with loved ones that have been victims of drunk drivers will take a different stance on that. >> there's talk of defunding,
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and it's not abolishing departments but diverting budget to social services to deal with some issues police currently handle, from homeless people to mental health. what do you think of that? are there situations, maybe this wasn't the one, where police probably don't even want to be handling sure this was one of those situations. >> no. >> but every cop i know, would have been my opinion as police officer, cops don't volunteer for this stuff. society has decided that police are going to be first responders in these situations. i think police officers across the country will be very supportive of shifting that responsibility to other first responders with better training and are better able to handle that situation. they don't want to do this, it's who we have decided to be first responders. now is time to change that. >> hit the nail on the head. if only said head home, sister
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lived a couple blocks away. jim, really appreciate it. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. press freedom in the philippines put to another test. verdict in liable case against award-winning journalist, we'll talk to her. beijing doubling down on testing to make sure new outbreak of coronavirus doesn't overwhelm china's capital. we'll be right back. visit a store or go to t-mobile.com/55.
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welcome back. a court in the philippines has found journalist maria ressa guilty of so-called cyberlibel. founder and ceo of "rappler," articles for rodrigo duterte and his war on drugs. good to see you. in many ways considering how the government has treated you, it's not surprising. do you have any chance on appeal? >> wow, first of all, michael thank you so much for having me, and you know, yes, today i was
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convicted, but i don't think rey and i and "rappler" were only ones. philippine justice system was on trial. i've been under attack for six years now. targeted by authorities after the government's weaponization of social media. first in 2016, exponential attacks on social media. today the judiciary just became implicit in this campaign. death by a thousand cuts. end goal to silence independent journalism, stifle press freedom. you know who i am, the work that we do. part of the reason we come out of this stronger is that we know there are deliberate efforts to stifle press freedom. >> yeah, and there's no -- hard pressed to find a finer, more
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honorable journalist and you've been targeted by the government at least 11 times. what sort of warning does what's happening in the media in the philippines send to other countries run by populist leaders, not to mention here in the u.s. where the president calls the press the enemy of the people. >> when the president did that to cnn and "new york times," our president also attacked us. we're all connected. this is part of the -- when i was with cnn, we were never -- these times are extremely different. you went into war zones. when we would go into conflict, you know exactly where the bullets are coming from and where to protect yourself. this time it's bottom-up on social media. when facts are debatable, we have no leg to stand on, yet our job is more important. when the same lies are repeated top-down by our presidents, how
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do we deal with that? this is existential moment for journalism, here in the philippines we're at precipice, looking down on the verge of losing our democracy, given everything that's going on. i'm now facing -- now i'm convicted criminal, the narrative seeded on social media four years ago, just took a while for the justice system to catch up. now journalist has been replaced by criminal. imelda marcos who was convicted in four different countries. our editor wrote a piece where the philippines goes, the united states follows. weaponization of social media is global. it's been used, almost a
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dictator's playbook to use this to attack news groups and journalists and water down facts. this is a big problem. >> your president once famously said just because you're a journalist, you're not exempted from assassination. where do you go from here in terms of your own work, your important work? you're incredibly brave apart from anything else, what do you do now? >> we continue. we will appeal this. we will bring it to the next level, court of appeals. there are two huge shifts of law that happened in this in order to even bring this case to court. there were legal acrobatics that had to happen, including changing the statute of limitations for libel from one year to 12 years, barely addressed in the verdict. second one is idea of continuous publication, re-publication,
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essentially because someone in "rappler" changed type before it was enacted. changed in 2014 and allows it to go to court. fixes a typo, you can go to jail for six years. this is insane, where we need to fight it. where else do we go? like every journalist in the world, we have to hold power to account and get social media to a point it is not spreading lies faster than facts. this is a global battle. we will redefine all of this. >> that was one of your first campaigns was facebook and misinformation, and so on and so forth. and had mounds of evidence of that. do you worry for yourself, maria? >> i learned how to protect
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myself from conflict situations in cnn, you know. we've been in these places. the difference now is that it's fear of fear. right? i've learned a lesson in four years. when someone, when power, great power, tries to hang a damocles sword over your head, if you allow it to affect you, you can't succeed. you're not doing the investigative journalism you need to do. at "rappler" we keep our eye on the ball. makes me wonder and worry, why are they afraid of journalists, why must they always make me feel their power? i think i'm a nice person, i ask respectfully, our reporters are respectful, but they don't like
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the questions. we have to get back to the idea of checks and balances. >> you're honorable, a fine journalist and nice person. keep at it, my friend, you're terrific. thanks for spending time with us. good luck. >> thank you, michael. in just a few hours, a russian court will pronounce sentence on paul whelan, the former u.s. marine accused of espionage, asking for 18 years in maximum security prison. been in jail since december 18, pleaded not guilty to all charges. u.s. ambassador to russia calls proceedings a mockery of justice, saying authorities haven't let him see whelan or provided u.s. officials with any evidence of alleged crimes. beijing is testing any
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patient with a fever for the coronavirus after a breakout of new cases at what is considered the largest food market in asia. at least 51 cases linked to the market have been reported since friday, breaking beijing's 56-day record of no new cases. stephen jones has more from beijing. bring us up to date with details you've been able to learn. >> reporter: beijing had not seen any new cases for almost two months until thursday, now 79 cases linked to the market. which has been closed down with authorities sealing off the market and surrounding neighborhoods. also placing a growing number of neighborhoods with newly reported cases under lockdown as well. we're also seeing obsessive health checks and screenings
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making a strong comeback across the city. things were easing off quite a bit until last thursday. you were seeing people take off masks in public and many places including tourist attractions, bars and restaurants and shopping malls were getting more crowded again. then came the latest clusters. that's why now the authorities are conducting extensive contact tracing and mass testing. sunday alone, tested more than 76,000 people, including anyone who had been to the market since may 30th, as well as close contacted. this testing program is continuing as we speak of the of the people they have tested so far, 59 have tested positive. they're expecting the number of confirmed cases continues to grow. then of course, seeing schools who had just reopened with students now told they have the option of study from home again. another sign how alarmed the
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authorities are, now saying people who have been to the market and close contacts should stay at home at least two weeks for medical observation. michael. >> worrying sign, steven, good to see you, stephen jiang, in beijing. another family of black man killed by police calling for justice. wife of rayshard brooks is speaking out when we come back. tell me about it. you know, it's made me think, i'm closer to my retirement days than i am my college days. hm. i'm thinking... will i have enough? should i change something? well, you're asking the right questions. i just want to know, am i gonna be okay? i know people who specialize in "am i going to be okay." i like that. you may need glasses though. yeah. guidance to help you stay on track, no matter what comes next. ♪
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out. >> i want them to go to jail, i want them to deal with the same thing because it wf it was my husband who killed someone else. if he shot them, he would be in jail, doing life sentence. they need to be put away. >> protesters meanwhile are building a memorial to brooks outside the wendy's fast food restaurant where the shooting took place. the restaurant was burned to the ground saturday night. some critics say police failed to de-escalate the situation after responding to call that brooks was asleep in the car. confrontation leading to struggle, brooks grabbing a taser and running, shot in the back and killed. shooting fanned the flames of anger and frustration that protesters were already feeling in wake of the police killing of
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george floyd. one protester explaining the reasoning behind setting the restaurant on fire. >> our mission is to get as many people out here, as many people speaking on this situation of right now that's going on. and that has caused this wendy's right here to be burnt down in the first place. yes, i feel bad about people who have lost their jobs, but at the same time we burnt this building, not any other around here, specifically because of what happened here. see what i'm saying? goes back to what our mission is, making sure there is justice served for the person who died at this wendy's. at the end of the day, the man ran, the man tried to escape. there was absolutely no reason a gun needs to be pulled when a man is trying to run. >> on sunday the medical examiner's office in the county where brooks was shot and killed released the autopsy details and
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it showed brooks shot twice in the back, died of organ damage and blood loss, officially ruled a homicide. one of the attorneys for the family appeared earlier on cnn and maintains it was a needless death. >> what that tells us, he was fleeing. back turned to the officer when the officer shot him, and when the bullets entered his body, which is very problematic, because regardless of what else happened that day, him fleeing should have been something that the officers should have taken as a way out of the situation, so that he could have lived and the officers could have continued with their day as well. >> police have now released 44 minutes of body cam footage. do you think this video helps your case? >> i wouldn't say helps or hurts, it's the same case. footage didn't show us anything we really didn't know already. what we know is that that
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interaction should not have resulted in death. so that body cam footage really didn't give us anything that said otherwise. >> what did you see in that body cam footage? so, so there were three parts of that crucial to us. first part was the discussion between mr. brooks and the officer. the second part was the scuffle between the two, and then the third part was mr. brooks trying to get away from the situation. so in the first part when they were having their discussion, it was clear that mr. brooks was trying to be deferential to the officer, something that black men are taught to do to survive these encounters. that wasn't working, officers seemed hell bent on taking him to jail, even though he was on private property, wasn't hurting anyone, didn't have deadly weapon and by all accounts was
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sleeping in a car. that's the first thing that's problematic, body cam didn't show us anything different. second thing was the tussle. did show them fighting. and showed the officers trying to tase him. and he took the taser. so we didn't see anything different, he was at that point, looked to be fighting for his life, if he could be here today, he could speak for himself and say what he was doing exactly. that's what it looked to be to us. third thing was he was fleeing. that's the most important part. because at that time the officer had the last, best chance to stop that from happening and he didn't take that chance, instead he shot brooks. >> city leaders have taken action. officer who shot brooks has been fired, police chief has stepped out. what's your reaction to that? >> you know, we represent the daughter of george floyd, we are
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local georgia counsel for ahmaud arberry, we're dealing with other cases as well. alton sterling, where these things happen and people say well, how do you feel about something happening in the case. and what i'll say is, it's good that change has occurred, that people are taking steps to mitigate problems. but it's not justice, and we don't really think it can ever be justice because a man's life was taken. children lost a father, a wife lost a husband. >> county district attorney said a decision on whether to bring charges in the case will come in around wednesday or so. we will keep an eye on that. we're going to take a short break. new york was once the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic but now reporting one of the lowest death tolls in the u.s. still the governor warns the state is not out of the woods
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brazil has reported another steep rise in coronavirus infections. on sunday health officials counting more than 17,000 new cases. at least 612 new deaths. daily death toll there thought to be highest in the world, even higher than the u.s. where the outbreak is still getting worse in at least 18 states. but things have been improving in other parts of the country. new york state, former epicenter of the pandemic has reported 23 new deaths. lowest number since the outbreak began. some cities there starting to reopen but governor warning the process can be rolled back if
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there are too many violations of the reopening policy. he and other officials still urging americans to wear masks. on twitter the u.s. surgeon general said wearing masks could reduce the asymptomatic spread of the virus. select countries in european union releasing some travel restrictions. some allowing travel throughout the eu, others like spain keeping the borders closed until end of the month. local economies are desperate for a boost from summer tourism. in england, nonessential high street shops are set to open, ending the retail shutdown. prime minister boris johnson announcing it in may, giving stores time to implement safety
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measures. president emmanuel macron in france announced easing of more restrictions and touched on recent antiracism protests. >> reporter: in his address to the nation, french president announced end of the initial phase of the coronavirus center ice he ice crisis in france. all students except high schoolers will have to go back to plclass. local elections will go ahead. importantly travel restrictions are also being lifted. french nationals can travel to other european countries and can travel outside europe starting july 1st. president's warned that country needs to prepare for possibility of a second wave of coronavirus, his focus is turning firmly toward rebuilding the crippled
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economy. and mr. macron also acknowledged the protest movement against racism and police violence sparked by death of george floyd. he admitted france has not done good enough job offering equal opportunity to all regardless of color of their skin and announced unspecified policies. but would not be erasing any names from history or taking down statues. praised law enforcement and moved swiftly back to handling of the coronavirus crisis. cyril vanier, cnn, paris. professor at ucla department of epidemiology, director of the center for immigrant health. joins me from los angeles. great to see you again. what do you make of alarming spikes in number of states and causes for it.
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what do you make of it? >> when we see these increases, really reflective of what's happened three weeks previously. this is exactly what we were saying was going to happen, what many of us epidemiologists would see happen was spike a couple of weeks after labor day. that's where we are now. it's not yesterday or day before, but two to three weeks prior. >> i wanted to ask this too. quite apart of what could come later, racial imagery of a trump rally in tulsa, oklahoma, what do you think of rally at all now? even the trump campaign is requiring anyone who goes to legally agree not to sue if they get the virus, and health chief of that city wants it postponed. is the president jeopardizing the health of his base? >> you know, i think any
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gathering indoors, thousands of people, probably not wearing masks, very close together, shouting, screaming, chanting, is a terrible idea. these are the perfect conditions for spread of the virus. so i think this is not advisable at this time. thing is that the virus is here, there is nothing different about the fact this virus is circulating. it is circulating everywhere in the united states. we're starting to see numbers go up. idea you're going to pull thousands of people together into a room at this point, there's a reason they're asking them to sign waivers not to sue if they get covid. >> you'd think, wouldn't you? and top health officer in tulsa saying please don't. american medical association said don't confuse reopening with returning to normal. health experts have been talking about a precipice ahead. yet you have a lot of governors
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saying reopening is fine, go ahead. one said there's no correlation between reopening and increasing cases. what do you make of the messaging at the moment? >> reopening is directly correlated with increasing cases. when you have more people circulating, they are more likely to be exposed to people who have the virus and therefore get infected. those are simple laws of infectious disease transmission. of course, as we open up, we're going to see more people interacting and the virus will spread. so it's just a logical -- it's a logical conclusion. and what the american medical association said is absolutely spot on. reopening does not mean that things are going back to normal. they can't go back to normal. we are still in the midst of a pandemic. we don't have therapeutics or a
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vaccine, and struggling still to have testing, tracing and isolating of people who are infected. it is still a challenge for us here in the united states. so we're really at a very critical point in this pandemic, and i think we're going to be paying the price for opening too soon. >> yeah. you've touched on something that's really important, that is the lack of tracing. and in particular that narrative seems to be political rather than medical. white house hasn't even attempted to put in a test and trace regime in our federal level. are you concerned about that? how do you get through this without tracing? >> well, i mean, contact tracing is a key part of epidemic response. so we must get our arms around this and improve. we need to hire more contact tracers, we need to be able to
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train them and really have testing available to everyone. and good testing. so that we really know where the cases are. this has been one of our biggest downfalls and why we've been not able to really control this epidemic here in the united states. >> yeah. yeah. just seems there needs to be federal coordination and control of that and there is none. you touched on this, it's important as well. are you getting sense of complacency around the country? a lot of people are wearing masks and taking care but i know in my own life, lot of people are not, become numb to the risk, feel the danger is over or just bored with it. what are the risks with that? >> this is a problem in public health in general. this is not specific to this pandemic. people get tired of having to be vigilant, it's true with many
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things. but here in particular this quarantine fatigue is real and unfortunately it's happening at a critical moment. i try to tell people all the time this is not going to be forever. if we can really just hang on and do our very best, everybody wearing masks, keep your droplets to yourself, social distance, i know it's hard but this won't necessarily be forever. we just have to take it a period of time -- a chunk at a time. how do you eat the elephant? one bite at a time. that's what we need to do here. we're in midst of a pandemic, we all need to do our part. it will make a difference. everybody is fatigued, tired of wearing a mask and social distancing, i get it. but we have to hang on until we have therapeutics or a vaccine in place, need to do our best. >> always good to get your thoughts, professor.
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a powerful image there from real madrid superstar marcelo after he scored sunday's match. showing support for the black lives matter movement, kneeling and raising a fist. spain's la liga returned to action after three weeks off. players taking the opportunity to honor coronavirus relief efforts and fight against social injustice. formula e star lucas di grassi talks to us before coronavirus in brazil. how he's working out being a stay-at-home dad and pandemic affecting motor sport. have a listen. ♪
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>> from what i've seen, you've been keeping fit in perhaps most adorable way possible, with your son leo. >> yes. >> does he enjoy working out with his dad? >> he weighs about 14 kilos, good weight for workout, at the same time i keep him busy. it's funny, he's trying to replicate everything i do. enjoying a lot of time with him. haven't been home for two months ever, even before he was born. >> do you look forward to the day when you can talk to leo about the fact he was blessed by pope francis? >> yeah, it was two years ago almost, a magical moment. didn't know if we're going to be able to see the pope or what's going to happen. he was going to pass away, not say anything, and he was super kind, stopped by, asked the name and blessed him. it was very happy to have that.
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>> as we know, brazil is in a bit of a desperate situation right now with the coronavirus. as you say, you're there in sao paulo, what is the situation like for you and your friends and family? and how fearful are you of what's going on in brazil right now? >> to be completely honest in brazil it's very hard to say let's have a lockdown because 50% of people that live in the slums don't even have access to running water. how can you say stay at home? they don't have food or money, it's not developed world that lockdown could work. here it has to be much more strategy of trying to reduce as much the contagion as possible. what i did, went to the old people's home, public asylums and distributed things for hygiene with friend of mine that runs ngo.
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helped 20,000 elderly people. with the same money 3d printed 2,000 face shields to distribute to hospitals and heavy duty workers that needed to work. >> coming back to formula e, the season was suspended in march, what discussions are going on to get back on track? >> i think that's the same question that every sport and entertainment event in the world are having right now. when we'll see a rock show with 100,000 people, a race with 20,000 or 30,000 people crunched together to celebrate like in mexico last year? solution for motorsport is to have the race without crowd and when there is a vaccine, should be out in next few months to a year, then i think things should go back to normal. >> on that note, thanks for spending part of your day with
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